The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1887-01-08
General Notes.


and a. mammoth cotton factory early
this year.
A superior quality of coal has been
discovered at Strawn, Tex, eighty miles
west of Fort Worth.
Horatio Potter, bishop of the diocese
of New York, died on the I'd, in his
seventy fifth year, of pneumonia.
Prof Barnard, of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, has discovered six comets in
the past four months.
The Union Pacific has adopted the
twenty four o'clock system on all its
lines, and trains will be operated ac-
cordingly.
The Rev. Geo. A. Thayer, of Bourbon,
Ind, says; Both myself and wife owe
our lives to Shiloh's consumption cure
Sold by NJ. P. Young g. Co.
The Spanish Supreme Court has re-
fused to commute the death sentence of
Father Galeoti, who murdered the
Bishop of Madrid.
Cholera is officially declared to be
extinct in Hungary, the total number
of cases in Pesth being 966, of which
400 we're fatal
The Vatican budget for the coming
year shows deficit of 100000, and
the Pope has resolved to adopt further
measures of retrenchment.
The great powers of Europe are al
most bankrupting themselves by their
efforts to force their armaments up near
ly to war footing.
St. Martin Reveille, Jan. i: The
Moss Factory of Mr.. C. L. Lacaze, of
st. Martinsville will be in operation at
the end of this month.
Baton Rouge Truth: The ladies of the
congregation of St. Joseph's Catholic
Church cleared from the fair last week
between eight hundred and fifty and
nine hundred dollars.
Rayne Signal: The fair given by the
ladies of the Catholic Church on last Sat.
urday and Sunday was complete fnan-
cial success. The net proceeds amount
ed to the handsome sum of $228.95.
Are you made miserable by indiges-
tion, consumption, dizziness, loss of ap-
petite, yellow skin Shiloh's Vitalizer
is positive cure Sold by M P. Young
g. Co.
Ascension Democrat: Steel rails are
being laid along the whole line of the T
s. P. r. R.; the work is being done in
sections, but is progressing as rapidly as
could be expected, and in the course OF
time we may reasonably hope to have a
first rate road along the whole route.
The receipts of cotton at the Monroe
compress during the last three months
has amounted to eleven thousand bales.
As the compress has only been in oper-
alton for this space of time, some idea
can be had from this of the paying
qualities of the compress business.
The political prospects of Mr.. Blaine
are more improved by the death of Gen
Logan than they could have been by the
removal of any other opposition in his
own party. It makes tie stalwart col.
umn solid for him, and renders 1t prob.
able that sense of the impolicy of tue
act is the only influence that can now
defeat his next nomination for the Pres,
idency.--Boston Herald, Ind.
Quite number of planters in Con,
cordia parish, says the Sentinel, are
already plowing their corn lands fol
the crop of 1897. This is a good plan,
as it will allow the lands thus broken
to receive the fertilizing influence oi
the winter freezes to much better ad
vantage than if unblokeu, and at the
same time it gives profitable employ.
ment to Che laborers who have finished
picking cotton.
/ Everybody in London is talking Of
war. The opinion prevails that a col
lision must take place in the early
spring. Wheeler it will be between
Germany and France, or Russia and
Austria, or Russia aud Turkey, OF
whether everybody will go to fighting
everybody is problematical. But that
there is to be war is definitely settled
by the know-alls,
The Savannah (Ga.) News, comment.
| ing on the steady increase of prosperity
in the South, says: Now that Interest
in the South's resources aud advantages
| has been awakened it is probable that
her growth aud development will be
| even more marked in the next few years
/ than it has been in the last few, because
these resources and advantages of a very
solid character, and will not disappoinr
those who place faith in them.n
t The old and mutilated bank notes
when they come back to the United
States Treasury, are chopped up ana
made into pulp, and this is nodded
into various shapes and forms. The
latest design is miniature bust of Mrs
Cleveland. 1t takes $4,000 worth o
/ bank notes to make bust of the Presi-
dents wife, and each figure is labeled
Made from mutilated United States
bank notes worth $4,000 These are
sold for small sum, and are having a
good sale.
Italy does better than the United
States in the matter of monuments
One has been erected to Victor Em
manuel at Turin costing 5000, 900, al
of which was paid by King Humbert
Another is going up on the Janiculun
In Rome to Garibaldi, to cost as much
Milan, Naples, Genoa, Palermo and
Bologna are putting up monuments Il
Victor Emmanuel costing from $50, ,001
to 800, 900 each, and Genoa is spend
ing $50, 900 on ono to Mazzini.
France now has total debt of about
$7,20O, ,0O0, 900, or twice as large as tina
\ of the United States at the close of tht
war, and six times as large as our pres
i emit interest bearing debt. The Frencl
debt is nearly 5000 per head of he
population, while that of the Unitel
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